The Chinese Like Us. They Really Really Like Us.

There's a great scene in the movie Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carey is seeking a date with Lauren Holley:

Carey: "What are my chances [of a date with you]?"
Holley: "Not good."
Carey: "You mean not good like one out of a hundred?"
Holley: "I'd say more like one out of a million."
Carey: [after a long, thoughtful pause] "So you're telling me there's still a chance?"

Pew's recently released and amazingly comprehensive Global Attitudes Survey [pdf] has 1/3 of China's population calling the US an enemy. Call me Careyesque, but I think that is pretty good. 41% of Chinese view the US favorably, as compared with only 31% in Germany and 33% in Spain.

To see how others are analyzing/digesting the report, check out the following:

-- "Chinese Want to LIve the Australian Dream?"
-- "China's going strong! Me, not so much."
-- "New Pew Report of Chinese Attitudes."
-- "Notes on Pew's Global Attitudes Survey"
-- "Satisfied, Fatalisitic China"

Lots of good stuff in the report.